Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza:
Playlist
from June 21, 2017

A live, improvised sound collage experiment, going back 24 years, weaving mesmerizing new soundscapes from found and collected materials right in the present moment.
Pop music, speeches, live phone calls and spontaneous monologues become ambient loopy layered threads riding the liminal spaces between waking and dreaming.
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Wed. 6/21/17 5:19pm
pacific standard simon:
Those Alan Watts talks were regularly broadcast on KSAN SF while Watts was still alive. I grew up listening to them with the lights off and the moon shining through my window.

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Wed. 6/21/17 5:20pm
listener james from westwood:
That sounds like a perfect setting for Watts absorption. I have clear memories of sitting in my car listening through the end of a lecture rather than go in to my destination. Same with Joe Frank.

Wed. 6/21/17 5:21pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Here's where keeping up with the playlist becomes impossible. I'm playing shows within shows within shows.

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Wed. 6/21/17 5:21pm
cklequ:
I''m supposed to be out working in the damn garden, but this show is too damn good.
Sticking around as long as i can.

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Wed. 6/21/17 5:22pm
fred:
One of the good things about Ramadan is that my neighbors are way more tolerant of noise after sunset. And the sun sets late these days

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Wed. 6/21/17 5:34pm
fred:
True story from the machine learning front: a researcher was complaining that his neural network got poor results because of human error (the task was classifying electronic/analog electric/acoustic instruments). His main complaint was that harpsichord was deemed acoustic, when his system said it was electronic, which was obviously true to him

Wed. 6/21/17 5:36pm
mossy lightouse:
I needed to bring me mum to the airport in the morning and i did not stay awake to call in.
I'm glad to be hearing today and thankful to find out that sound waves i have been near previously were able to live in this show in new ways!

Wed. 6/21/17 5:39pm
Dave in Vermont on the phone:
I'm a passenger in the car and a passenger I've show.

Wed. 6/21/17 5:40pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
I've got 3 Tuesdays off and 3 Wednesdays of classic unearthings. Mid-July is next chance to call in live

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Wed. 6/21/17 5:41pm
listener james from westwood:
My senior year of high school was 1987. They wanted to use "With or Without You" as our prom song. How do you dance to that? You can't even pogo to it.

Wed. 6/21/17 5:43pm
Dave in Vermont on the phone:
In the

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Wed. 6/21/17 5:44pm
pacific standard simon:
It's no coincidence that the harpsichord enjoyed a revival in the '60s, when the Moog synthesizer entered the vocabulary of the arranger.

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Wed. 6/21/17 5:44pm
cklequ:
The best thing about this is that i wouldn't even know With Or Without You was playing if i couldn't see the playlist.

Wed. 6/21/17 5:45pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Yes, the playlist ruins everything. That was the point of my originally starting to playlist, to prove how terrible data is

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Wed. 6/21/17 5:46pm
fred:
@ljfw: my senior year was 1989. I was banned from the "prom", so I don't know what they played
@pss: that was actually his point: synths can sound like convincing harpsichords

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Wed. 6/21/17 5:51pm
listener james from westwood:
@fred: Being banned from my prom would've saved me $400 in hard cold money.
@pss: From a distance, for my graduating class and its dates, that would've looked like 350 waving tendrils of a very restless, very white sea anemone.

Wed. 6/21/17 5:52pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Rare man behind the scenes behind the scenes moment: What I'm doing right now is watching a video of me doing this show live on the radio last night

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Wed. 6/21/17 5:56pm
fred:
@melinda: "prom" here is just a party thrown by students. I was viewed as a troublemaker, mainly because when my school made up a rule that I could only enter one national academic contest, I chose English over math. Also, I didn't apply for a prep school and chose to go to a public college. You can't outmild my rebellion, but that was too much for other students. Teenagers are conformists

Wed. 6/21/17 5:58pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Rare man behind the scenes behind the scenes moment: The Facebook event for today's show has something of a screenshot of this show within show coming into form www.facebook.com...

Wed. 6/21/17 5:59pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Ligeti didn't get mentioned on playlist sooner because it was coming from the "None of this is What I Intended" collage from 2005

Wed. 6/21/17 6:04pm
mossy lightouse:
It is wonderful that KLERE did emerge the same year, but prior to, the release of a specific REM song! I personally feel that Michael would love your creations endlessly, or maybe hopefully already knows of them and listens!

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Wed. 6/21/17 6:04pm
pacific standard simon:
I always look for Jupiter in the sky when I get off work. Now I'm curious about how far out beyond Jupiter you can be and see it as bright as we do.

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Wed. 6/21/17 6:09pm
fred:
Now is when I should shut down the computer and go to sleep. It's too hot for that, and the show's too good. I'll linger until the neighbors complain. It might take them a little longer to ID this as music coming from my apartment, hopefully

Wed. 6/21/17 6:14pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Hi Rand! Everyone: The archive of this show will be posted instantly upon finishing tonight, and will be of higher sound quality than we've just heard on the live stream.

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Wed. 6/21/17 6:14pm
pacific standard simon:
Except you should go to more baseball games. Small ones, With a Zen attitude.

Wed. 6/21/17 6:23pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Rare man behind the scenes behind the scenes moment: I'm operating 39 faders during this moment of the show, not including all the shows within shows playing that themselves had me doing the same, spanning back to 2002 in this case

Wed. 6/21/17 6:23pm
Rand al'Thor:
I've been listening to both last week's episode and "Other Shapes are Possible" a lot lately

Wed. 6/21/17 6:43pm
Rand al'Thor:
Something sounds like thunder in this mix and I have to take off my headphones to make sure it isn't thundering here.

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Wed. 6/21/17 6:43pm
fred:
I don't appreciate it as it happens, but I'm thankful for it when I listen again, or when I try to layer two shows so that samples align (yes, I did try to do that, failed at it, but succeeded at enjoying the result)

Wed. 6/21/17 6:44pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
I can't even believe any of this exists. I have to watch the videos and listen 15 times in a row and I believe it for a vanishing moment here and there

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Wed. 6/21/17 6:45pm
pacific standard simon:
I confess that I look at the playlist less often than you would wish. I recognize a great deal, though.

Wed. 6/21/17 6:45pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
This show is going to end at 6:55, and then I'll immediately post the higher quality archives!

Wed. 6/21/17 6:46pm
Rand al'Thor:
Then I'm gonna listen to this from the start, hear what I missed.

Wed. 6/21/17 6:46pm
mossy lightouse:
Yes! The playlist is basically like you are listening to an orchestral performance and transcribing the notes and dynamics for multiple instruments into something that is more open ended than music notation. It is another part of the shows! : )

Wed. 6/21/17 6:50pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
I don't know what I'm going to do in this slot for the next three weeks, but something! Something! Please hold this space for me cooperatively, as wisened citizens, no matter how I may appear or ether.

Wed. 6/21/17 6:52pm
Rich in Washington:
I literally do not know what I am going to do next.

Wed. 6/21/17 6:52pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
If you haven't emailed me to say hello, please do! ken at lastever.org. And please click the star icon in the upper left corner and also to the right of this episode title, so I remember you were here!

Wed. 6/21/17 6:53pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
@Rich: The archive links are ALREADY up. You can backwards and be in your next now.

Wed. 6/21/17 7:02pm
mossy lightouse:
I think the upcoming Wednesday shows will be very exciting; it has been a few years since you have been able to introduce shows that have only been heard once by most people from your archives during the show's broadcast space!